La caduta della Casa degli Usher
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Tradotto da: Gabriele Baldini
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Le mura sono decrepite e grigie, le finestre simili a orbite vuote; tutto intorno, alberi scheletrici si specchiano nelle acque morte di uno stagno da cui si levano miasmi pestilenziali. La visione della casa degli Usher raggela l’anonimo narratore che si è messo in viaggio dopo aver ricevuto un’accorata lettera del proprietario, suo amico d’infanzia. L’aspetto dei padroni di casa non è meno inquietante: Roderick, pallido e tremante, è schiavo di una strana forma di terrore, mentre la sorella Madeline è minata da un male che la sta conducendo inesorabilmente alla morte. Un rapporto di amore-odio lega i due fratelli gemelli, ultimi rampolli di un’illustre casata in rovina. E un’oscura maledizione incombe sull’antica dimora e sui suoi abitanti. In un crescendo di suggestione e di orrore, Poe costruisce un perfetto racconto gotico capace di dar corpo agli incubi più neri e infernali del cuore umano.
- ISBN: 8811010934
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 64
- Data di uscita: 25-08-2023
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Some fall! An unnamed character receives a letter from an old friend beseeching to urgently visit him at his mansion. A strange malady has befallen Roderick and Madeline Usher, last descendants of the prestigious Usher family. This was a very decent short read. A strange beginning, followed by an i
"There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher?" A gothic house tha Leggi tutto
Perhaps the perfect story for the COVID-19 quarantine! I say this for two reasons. First: The length This story can be consumed in one sitting. At a time when I am struggling to focus on reading, getting in and getting out of a story quickly is perfect for my current attention span. Also, I decided to Leggi tutto
Roderick Usher thinks he's under a curse and writes to his friend. I'm under a curse and full of melancholy! Come to my house and we can paint and read and sing together. I'm sure that will fix it.Sincerely, RodPS - No pressure but I've written this letter with my tears. The friend (our narrator) the Leggi tutto
2022 reread: I started reading the upcoming novel What Moves the Dead (by one of my favorite authors, T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon) and realized that it’s a novelization of this famous story by Poe. So I put a pin in her novel to do a quick reread of this story. It’s as creepy and atmospheric and fi Leggi tutto
Wow, what a fantastic story. You have all the gothic elements crammed in here: a haunted (perhaps even sentient) house, a mysterious illness, madness, death, entombment, a dungeon, a violent storm, a cursed family, hints of possible incest (?), resurrection, bizarre poetry, and a story-within-the-st Leggi tutto
The Fall of the House of Usher (published in 1839) may well be one of the stories which started the current interest in the gothic genre, although Ann Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho" , for instance, had been published much earlier in 1794. Apart from its parody in Jane Austen's "Northanger A
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe is the Original Creep Show! Our nameless narrator, a childhood friend of Roderick Usher, has been beckoned via letter to the Usher home. Roderick states he's ill and needs immediate help. The friend wonders why he's been summoned. Upon arrival, he find Leggi tutto
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